Episode 405: The Model 3 LR AWD Is Back + 3 “New” 2010 Roadsters Found!
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Tesla has made the long-dormant Model 3 Long Range All-Wheel Drive variant available once again, but not everything is exactly the way it was before. Plus: three “barn find” original Roadsters are discovered with zero miles on the odometers, the Model S Plaid finally gets its Track Package that unlocks its 200 mph top speed, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla has made the long dormant model three long-range all-wheel drive variant available once again, |
| 0:10.0 | but not everything is exactly the way it was before. |
| 0:14.0 | Plus, three Barn find original roadsters are discovered with zero miles on the odometers. |
| 0:21.0 | The Model S Plaid finally gets its track package that unlocks its 200 mile per hour top speed and more. Oh, What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here joined as always by Daisy the boxer to my left and if you happen to hear any background |
| 0:56.0 | dog noises in this episode I apologize we are dog sitting for a boxer-owning |
| 1:02.0 | friend of ours who had to leave town very suddenly on a family emergency, unfortunately. |
| 1:07.0 | So there are three big dogs here. In fact, our canine house guest is a mailboxer, so he's bigger than Daisy |
| 1:15.8 | Anselina. There has been a lot of romping around already this afternoon. In any case, |
| 1:22.0 | there is plenty of fun Tesla stuff to talk about this week, as always. |
| 1:25.9 | But first, I hope all of you who are kindly backing my efforts with this podcast, kindly |
| 1:30.8 | supporting the podcast at that $10 a month tier or higher on my |
| 1:35.4 | Patreon. I hope you all enjoyed this week's lightning round mini episode which |
| 1:40.2 | was about a couple of my Road Trip War stories which was a couple of my road trip war stories |
| 1:43.8 | which was a topic very kindly suggested by Patreon backer Josh Rose. |
| 1:49.1 | So thank you Josh for that. |
| 1:50.8 | As a reminder, any time any of you are kind enough to join my |
| 1:54.8 | Patreon at that $10 ludicrous tier or higher, you will get access to all now |
| 2:01.6 | 45 of those lightning round mini episodes plus obviously all of them that I do every week from here on out. |
| 2:09.0 | You can find out more about supporting me on Patreon on my Patreon page which is |
| 2:14.9 | Patreon.com slash Tesla Podcast. Well let's get right into it because there is plenty to |
| 2:21.9 | get to remember when I was just talking about the |
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